Justin Bieber Without Selena Gomez: A Scary Retrospective

Behind every great man, there's a great woman. And that's why we blame the rapid decline of teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber and his unexplainable behavior on his many, many break-ups with on-and-off girlfriend Selena Gomez.

2011: After months of speculation, the teenage couple makes their first red carpet appearance together at the Vanity Fair Oscar afterparty. Tweens freak the eff out over the fact that the Biebs is not longer single.

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2012: Justin displays his first sign of rebellion when he's pulled over on the Ventura Freeway for going over 100 miles per hour. Oopsie.

January 2013: After reportedly getting into a blowout fight over New Year's, the couple officially call it quits.

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January 4, 2013: ....Aaaaaand the rumors are true. And then the Biebs is busted by TMZ for allegedly smoking weed. We imagine Selena secretly doing a little victory dance right about now with her girl posse of Taylor Swift and Emma Stone.

March 2013: Oh, no! Not the Beliebers, too! Pissed-off fans freak out when Bieber takes the stage two hours late in London. Tweens practically boo the Biebs off stage. He must have left his manners in the arms of his ex.

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March 2013: Days later, the 19-year-old lunges at an over-eager paparazzo in London, screeching: "I'll beat the [bleep] out of you!" Do you kiss Selena with that mouth, Justin? Oh right, you broke up.

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March 2013: The same day, he apologizes (sort of) on Twitter. His fans don't all react with the usual love.

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March 2013: Three days after the London photog debacle, Justin cancels a show in Portugal. Maybe a tweet reading "#sundayfunday" had something to do with it?

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March 2013: Meanwhile, back in America, Selena shows while her ex-boyfriend is having a near breakdown across the Atlantic, she's cool as a cucumber on late night television. When David Letterman jokes he once made Justin Bieber cry, she cracks: "That makes two of us."

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March 2013: Okay, there was that whole Spring Breakers thing, where sexy Selena plays, like, the worst character ever (seriously Selena? You're better than that, girl). But we'll cut her some slack. Breakups are never fun.

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March 2013: Besides, it's not like she was bringing a monkey into Germany illegally, and having it seized. Which is exactly what her ex was doing at this time, as one does. Biebs had Mally the capuchin taken into quarantine when he tried to smuggle it into the country, and eventually had to hand it over for good.

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April 2013: As if losing his pet (friend? travel companion? new backup dancer?) wasn't bad enough, Biebs was then banned by two well-known European clubs, Passage in Vienna, Austria (for supposedly smelling of weed) and Sankeys in Manchester, because he "shuffles" on stage. Apparently his dancing went to hell after Selena, too.

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April 2013: But there's hope for the Biebs: The couple are spotted together in Norway, where he's continuing his European tour. Rumors begin to pop up of hand-holding and kissing.

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April 2013: Later that month, Bieber all but confirms the couple is back on when he tweets a shirtless photo of himself with Selena's arms wrapped around him. Let's just hope she keeps him, and his monkey in check, from now on.
And then...they broke up. Again. We give up.